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Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. ∼1,000,000 Quasars from Data Release 6

  • Authors: Gordon T. Richards, Adam D. Myers, Alexander G. Gray, Ryan N. Riegel, Robert C. Nichol, Robert J. Brunner, Alexander S. Szalay, Donald P. Schneider, and Scott F. Anderson

RICHARDS et al. 2009 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 180 67.

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Fraction of objects classified as point sources in single-epoch SDSS photometry that are indeed point sources according to the Bayesian star–galaxy classification algorithm (Scranton et al. 2002). At the limit of our survey, contamination from galaxies may be as high as ~15%. Brighter than i ~ 20, contamination should be lower than ~5% indicated here, since this plot uses a rather strict cut on galaxy probability that is more appropriate at faint magnitudes than bright.

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